Medium 5.3Published Jun 14, 2020

CVE-2020-14155libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 10:40 PM ET)

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libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.

CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

pcre pcre pcre:pcre	before 8.44	NVD
apple macos apple:macos	before 11.0.1	NVD
gitlab gitlab gitlab:gitlab	before 12.10.13; before 12.10.13; from 13.0.0 before 13.0.8; from 13.0.0 before 13.0.8; from 13.1.0 before 13.1.2; from 13.1.0 before 13.1.2	NVD
oracle communications_cloud_native_core_policy oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy	1.15.0	NVD
netapp active_iq_unified_manager netapp:active_iq_unified_manager	all versions	NVD
netapp cloud_backup netapp:cloud_backup	all versions	NVD
netapp clustered_data_ontap netapp:clustered_data_ontap	all versions	NVD
netapp ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility	all versions	NVD
netapp steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage	all versions	NVD
netapp h410c_firmware netapp:h410c_firmware	all versions	NVD
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References

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/717920
https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/32	mailing-list
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211931
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Feb/14	mailing-list
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E	mailing-list
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212147
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/01/security-release-13-1-2-release/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0010/

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